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Q. How much do you sow per acre ? 



Prof. Miller : About one bushel per acre. That depends, how- 

 ever, on what you want to produce, whether seed or feed. Of the 

 New Era variety we sow only three pecks to the acre. If you will 

 write the Experiment Station you can get a bulletin giving you in- 

 formation on cowpeas. 



Q. Will land that is rich in humus really become sour? 



Prof. Miller: Yes, some of the richest lands in the United 

 States are sour. 



Q. Do you take your manure direct from the barn? 



Prof. Miller: Yes. 



Q. What capacity manure spreader do you recommend? 



Prof. Miller: Sixty bushels is extreme for two horses. If you 

 use a 70-bushel spreader with four horses it is all right, but that 

 is getting most too large for the average farmer. 



Q. Is there any difference in the value of the manure to the 

 ground when it is spread with a fork or with a spreader? 



Prof. Miller : No, except the spreader makes it go farther. 



Q. I notice that Hopkins says that the land that is rich in 

 humus, and is sour, which turns the blue litmus paper red, is the 

 land on which to use phosphorus. 



Prof. Miller: That is true; but we have very few of those 

 lands in Missouri. While on this, I will say that if you wish to 

 use phosphorus, the very best way to use it is in connection with 

 manure. Scatter the ground rock phosphate over the manure on 

 the ground. The use of manure to which ground rock phosphate 

 has been added has very much increased the net return. 



Q. I have got a piece of land which has been idle for some 

 time. It has a heavy growth of weeds, higher than your head. 

 Would you burn those weeds off or plow them under? 



Prof. Miller: For corn, if you can plow them early enough, 

 plow them under. If you cannot plow until late, then I would burn 

 them off. 



GROWING AND SELECTING SEED CORN. 



(L. B. Olore, Franklin, Indiana.) 



There are more things to be considered in growing a success- 

 ful corn crop than the selection of the seed. I would like to go 

 back, in the first place, to the condition of the soil, which is one of 

 the fet essential things toward a successful ecru crop. We can- 



